Thursday, April 26, 2012

Autumn Poems

We wrote poems about Autumn. Read our fabulous descriptive writing!

Autumn Memories
By Nina
I see the leaves drifting in the cold night breeze.
I see snails slithering slowly in the long wet grass.
I hear bees buzzing all over the place.
I hear crunching leaves under my feet.
I feel worms digging under my toes.
I feel bumpy, pointy leaves.
I smell mown grass with leaves crunching.
I smell delicious fruit.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Sophie
I see my kitten chasing his tail around in the leaves.
I smell the cool Autumn air.
I hear birds chirping in the trees.
I feel trees blowing in the air.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn Frost
By Tyler
I smell a BBQ waiting for me.
I hear my family jumping in the crunchy Autumn leaves.
I feel the frost waving in the air.
I see my friends coming to me. That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Billie
I hear worms digging into the soil and my bunny jumping.
I feel the breeze blowing into my face.
I smell dirty compost.
I see furry kiwifruit.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Gemma
I hear the soft wind blow the trees.
I see the fruit growing.
I smell the yummy food my mum is making.
I feel very warm in my cosy bed.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Harry
I see lots of leaves falling everywhere in New Zealand.
In Autumn we feel every leaf that falls from the sky.
That’s what reminds me of autumn.

Autumn
By Caroline
I hear leaves crunching on the ground.
I see leaves falling from trees.
I smell the Autumn breeze.

Autumn
By Harriet
I smell my mum baking chocolate chip cookies. The smell is coming to my nose.
I see the leaves falling from the trees.
I hear the wind whispering in my ears.
I feel the crispy, cool air.

Reminds me of Autumn
By John
In Autumn I see green grasshoppers jumping around.
I hear bees buzzing.
I smell mum cooking.
I feel the Fall.

Leaves Falling
By Bethany
I hear children shouting.
I see the grass being mowed.
I smell my Dad cooking roast pork inside.
I feel wet grass under my feet.

Autumn
By Louella
I feel soft crunching leaves under my feet.
I see green gooseberries, soft and squishy.
I hear the wind fluttering in my face and I smell cold grass.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Bhawnvir
I see Autumn leaves falling off their brown, waving branches.
I hear birds nibbling and chirping.
I smell Mum cooking cookies in the oven.
I feel my dog licking me.

Autumn
By Mitchell
I see Autumn leaves falling.
I hear leaves crunching.
I feel soft leaves.
I smell a fresh Autumn breeze.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Mustafa
I smell and feel the cold air on me.
I hear crunchy leaves curling up on the ground.
I see leaves falling.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn Breeze
By Rowan
I see lots of leaves in Autumn.
I hear the chicken sizzling on the barbecue and hot dogs.
I smell chicken.
I feel cooler.

Autumn
By Ella
I see Autumn leaves falling down.
I hear rain pouring and falling.
I feel a leaf tunnel.
I smell a plant.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Carlotta
I see leaves falling down from the trees.
I feel wind going all over me.
I smell my mum making pasta.
I hear trees.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Lucy
I smell my mum making warm Milo, yummy.
I hear birds chirping about.
I feel dripping leaves splashing on me.
I see rain running off the roof of the house.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Joel
I see furry, wet leaves on the ground.
I hear bees buzzing around in circles.
I feel soft, round kiwifruit growing.
I smell grass being mowed.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Nathan
I smell nice and warm hot chocolate floating to me.
I feel snug as a bug in a rug and cosy on my couch watching My Sky HDI.
I hear my mum cooking breakfast. I see rain falling on my roof.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Molly
I hear hard, heavy rain pounding and bouncing on my window.
I feel warm and cosy when I’m snuggled up in bed.
I smell my mum making hot chocolate, mmm!
I see my sister playing in Autumn leaves.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Autumn
By Rayan
In Autumn I remember daddy making marshmallows on the barbecue.
Also I hear crispy, cold leaves crunching on the ground.
I smell and feel the cold Autumn breeze.
Also I see birds going for hibernation.

Autumn
By James
I see a pretty butterfly.
I hear the cicadas chirping.
I smell a daffodil flower.
I feel caterpillars crunching.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.


Autumn
By Hazel
I see Autumn leaves floating off the tree on a cold morning.
I hear birds chirping.
I feel leaves in the tunnel.
I smell wet grass.
That’s what reminds me of Autumn.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Swimming Sports

We had a fabulous time at swimming sports!
Have a look at some pictures of the day.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Swimming

We have just finished 2 weeks of daily swimming lessons with Hilton Brown instructors in the school pool. The children had a fabulous time. They LOVED their lessons and made so much progress. Look at what we learned.


We learned to kick with long, strong legs.


 Our instructors gave us lots of useful tips.


We got really fit. We can swim a whole length of the pool!


 We listened carefully to all the instructions.


We learned to lean to the side to breathe without stopping.


Some of us even learned to swim breast stroke!


We learned to swim backstroke. 


 We used kick boards to help practice our arm circles.


We blew bubbles with out eyes down while we did arm strokes.
 
 

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Assembly

Rooms 20 and 21 loved practicing for and presenting our assembly in the school hall. We were quite nervous to speak in front of such a big audience, but excited at the same time. Here are some photos of our presentation.




Monday, February 27, 2012

Philosophy

This term we are doing Philosophy for Children as part of our Oral Language program. We are learning to take turns speaking and to agree or disagree with other people's ideas.

This week the topic we discussed was:
"We should chop down our junior orchard to build a cool new playground."

Here are our thoughts...

Sophie: I disagree because our junior orchard is very special because we're going to plant some marigolds in there.

Bethany: I agree with Sophie because our junior orchard is the home for the worms

Molly: I agree with Sophie because the junior orchard is special because it's native. It's not very good to nature to chop trees.

Tyler: It is our responsibility to take care of the junior orchard. It's the worms' home. It keeps us alive 'cause it has oxygen.

Nina: I agree with Sophie because the orchard is a special place. The worms make soil so we can make more flowers.

Caroline: I agree with Sophie because it's part of nature.

Louella: I agree with Sophie because if we chop it down some worms might get chopped in half and die.

Miss Cockcroft: We need more playground space because we have lots more children at our school now.

Rowan: I disagree with Miss Cockcroft 'cause without the orchard we'd have nowhere to put the worm scraps.

Mitchell: I agree with Sophie because if the orchard wasn't there we would all die. The worm farms give us oxygen and so does the orchard.

Olivia: I disagree with Miss Cockcroft because if the orchard was cut down there would still because there would still be soil. And because trees help us to breathe. If there were no trees it would all turn into a desert.

John: I agree with Olivia because if the trees weren't here nobody would be on Earth.

Lucy: I disagree with Miss Cockcroft because if we had a playground in the orchard there would be no sun in the classrooms along here.

Bhawnvir: I agree with Miss Cockcroft because if we don't cut the orchard down we won't have enough places to play.

Hazel: I disagree with Miss Cockcroft because the orchard is special and the worms and plants would die.